Re: [dm-crypt] migrate luks key-slots to another luks container

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:29:31PM +0100, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
> Am 16.01.2013 22:08, schrieb Arno Wagner:
> >Ah, that makes sense. However, do you actually need this
> >alignment? If yor filesystem has, say, 4kB blocks and your
> >stripe-size is a multiple of that, it will be aligned anyways.
> 
> Unfortunately this isn't easy to achieve if you are using raid5 or 6.
> I am moving to a raid6 with 5 disks using 64k chunksize. 64k chunks
> multiplied by the number of data bearing disks (3) results in a
> stripe width of 192k (=384 blocks). Thus I guess I should use
> --align-payload=384. The current setting is different and even the
> default of 1MiB isn't a multiple of that value.
> 
> Anyway, is the migration of keyslots possible in my case?

As Milan said, no.

Arno
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